cultivation, not exceeding twenty acres in the case of any one 

 holding, or to the extent of twenty acres where any holding ex- 

 ceeds twenty acres. 



In order to secure such exemption the land in respect w'hereof 

 such exemption is claimed must be fenced and actually under 

 cultivation prior to the first day of January of the year in w^hich 

 such exemption is claimed. 



Section 2. This Act shall take effect from and after the date 

 of its approval. 



Approved this nth day of !March, A. D. 1907. 



G. R. CARTER, 

 Governor of the Territory of Hawaii. 



ACT 24. 



AN ACT 



To Establish the College of Agriculture and Mechanic 

 Arts of the Territory of Haw^\ii, and to Provide for 

 the Government and Support Thereof. 



Be it Ena-ctcd by the Legislature of the Territory of Hazvaii: 



Section i. The Governor shall nominate and by and w-ith the 

 advice and consent of the Senate shall appoint five persons, who 

 shall constitute the Board of Regents of the College of Agricul- 

 ture and ^lechanic Arts of the Territory of Hawaii, which is 

 hereby established. 



Section 2. The persons appointed in accordance with Sec- 

 tion I of this Act shall be residents of the Territory of Hawaii 

 and not less than 25 years of age. One member of the Board 

 of Regents shall be appointed for the term of one year, two for 

 two years, and two for three years, and their successors shall 

 thereafter be appointed for the term of four vears. 



Section 3. The Board of Regents shall have the general man- 

 agement and control of the affairs of the College. They shall 

 have power to purchase or otherwise acquire lands, buildings, 

 appliances and other property for the purposes of the College and 

 expend such sums of money as may be from time to time placed 

 at the disposal of the College from wdiatever source. All lands, 

 buildings, appHances and other property so purchased or acquired 

 shall be and remain the property of the Territory of Hawaii, to 

 be used in perpetuity for the benefit of the College. 



Section /•. The purposes of the College are to give thorough 

 instruction in agriculture, mechanic arts and the natural science 

 connected therewith, and such instruction in other branches of 

 advanced learning as the Board of Regents may from time to 

 time prescribe, and to give such m.ilitary instruction as the Fed- 

 eral Government may require. The standard of instruction in 



